Newborn declared dead moves before burial

A newborn girl who was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Monday started to move and breathe within
two and a half hours at city’s Azimpur Graveyard where it was taken for burial.
The first baby of garment worker couple Minhaz Uddin and Sharmin Akhter of village Modhudanga under Dhamrai in Dhaka, the newborn, named Mim in the graveyard’s registrar, was declared dead by the on-duty physician and was handed over to its relatives for burial.
The baby was then taken to Azimpur graveyard for burial, said Md Shariful, uncle of the newborn, and added that it began to move when she was undergoing a bath as per burial ritual. 
Azimpur graveyard’s acing in-charge Hafizul Islam said that two youths — Shariful and Minhaz Uddin — brought the baby girl for burial anytime between 9:30am and 10:00am and, as per rituals, when a female dresser Jesmin Akhter was giving her a bath, it began moving and breathing opening its mouth.
The dresser cried out saying that the baby was alive and the baby was immediately rushed to Azimpur Mother and Child Health Training Institute, commonly known as Azimpur Maternity Hospital, he said. 
The baby girl was given the name at the graveyard, he said, adding that he himself saw that death certificate of the newborn, daughter of Minhaj from Dhamrai, Dhaka.
The maternity hospital authorities immediately referred the newborn to Dhaka Shishu Hospital where she was admitted about 11:15am, officials at the hospitals said.
Shishu Hospital director Dr Md Abdul Aziz told New Age in the evening that the baby was on life support in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of the hospital. 
‘It cannot be said that her condition is good. But, she is now better than she was when brought to the hospital,’ he said.
‘The newborn’s heart beat is much lower than normal and she had acute breathing problem. Her weight is only one kilogram and was born only within seven months of her mother’s pregnancy,’ he added.
‘So far as we know, there was no movement of the baby in its mother’s womb last night. Thus, they (doctors at DMCH) may have assumed that it had died in the womb. Later the doctors assisted its mother to give its birth through normal delivery,’ he said.
Shariful at Shishu Hospital said that DMCH doctors told them that her sister gave birth to a still baby and handed the body to them in a carton for burial.
The newborn’s mother Sharmin at DMCH told New Age that she was admitted to DMCH on Saturday 1:00am and that she became senseless immediately after giving birth to a girl.
‘I was informed by the nurses and members of my family that I had given birth to a still baby,’ she said.
DMCH director AKM Nasir Uddin in a press briefing at his office in the afternoon said they had suspicion whether Mim was the baby of their patient Sharmin.
Sharmin was admitted to the hospital with 27-weeks’ pregnancy and she gave birth to a stillborn and the body was handed over to its relatives, he said.
The hospital director said that they had formed a four-member committee led by the hospital’s deputy director Bidyut Kanti Paul to probe the incident.

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